I'm really hoping we can get some much more lightweight Mastodon-compatible blogging software working – there are WordPress plugins and suchlike, but something more compatible with static hosting and a bit of serverless function magic would be fantastic
AI
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Authoritarian Personality Types in Corporate Tech Culture
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Recommended reading: the Wikipedia article on the authoritarian personality type (Useful if you're scratching you head at all of these people on Twitter who think you should expect to be fired for disagreeing with your CEO)
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Running Independent AI Instances On Your Own Domain
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I like that if I lose trust in them or they vanish for some reason I can fire up a new instance on my own domain name and keep on running
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Musk’s team reviews Twitter messages to identify insubordinate employees
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From that article: "Mr. Musk’s team was asked to comb through messages in Twitter’s internal chat platform and make a list of employees who were insubordinate, people briefed on the plan said."
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AI in Healthcare: Amazing Speakers Advancing Human-Centered Medicine
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So exciting to see these work in healthcare and medical area, where humans are at the center of everything we do! Amazing speakers!
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Mastodon’s Safety-First Design Built by Underrepresented Communities
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Mastodon was built by sensible, thoughtful people, many from underrepresented communities who had very clear needs around safety and moderation – they've put a lot of careful work into that, and the community there continues to invest in it I'm optimistic!
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Creator Moves to Decentralized Platform After 16 Years on Twitter
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I invested 16 years in producing content for Twitter, I'm extremely uninterested in putting that kind of work into a platform that I don't own in the future Hence https://
fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon – which may not be quite as slick and usable as Twitter, but it's close enough! -
AI Correctness vs User Satisfaction: Resolving HCI Conflicts
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Another wonderful panel by @msbernst @stanfordmav @adapperprof @landay @StanfordHAI Fall Conf today. “AI optimizes for 100% correctness; HCI optimizes for 100% user satisfaction. What happens when they’re in conflict?”
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Elon Musk fires Twitter employees for internal disagreement
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He isn't just firing people who posted in public, he's actively hunting down people who disagreed with him internally too https://
nytimes.com/2022/11/15/tec
hnology/elon-musk-twitter-fired-criticism.html
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Content Creators Trust Platform Decentralization Risk
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In this particular case I think the group that matters most isn't the majority of end-users, it's the much smaller group of people who produce the majority of the content – and who really will think hard about what platform they trust most not to rug-pull them in the future